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University Daily Kansan, November 17, 1983
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Planning commission delays downtown decision
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Members of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, saying that they had been put on the spot by the Lawrence City Commission,innen decided to delay a decision on brown redevelopment plan until January.
Commissioner Dean Harvey said that this was a poor time to make changes in the city's comprehensive downtown plan because of the recent selection by the Lawrence City Commission of a new developer of record for downtown.
"The City Commission has put the Planning Commission on the spot, and I don't appreciate it," Harvey said. "I think there needs to be changes but not now."
"THE PROBLEM WAS created by the City Commission. They may not like to hear it, but that's a fact. I cannot understand with any changes in the plan at this time."
Harvey's comments were met with a light round of applause from several
residents who were opposed to the planning commission making any decision without taking more time to review proposed changes.
The changes in the plan, which is part of the city's master plan, were devised by the city planning staff and by a committee about two weeks ago.
Commissioner Monte Miller agreed with Harvey and suggested that the commission postpone action indefinitely.
Seven people spoke during the public hearing portion of the issue, all urging the commission to take more time to review the proposed changes.
"It's unfortunate that this has come up, and I also don't approve of the position we've been placed in," Miller said.
FORMER MAYOR MARCI Francisco, who was involved in the original workshops to prepare the comprehensive plan, urged the planning team to make a public work with it before sending a recommendation to the City Commission.
All of the commissioners agreed that
they had not had sufficient time to review and become familiar with the large number of changes that had been proposed.
However, Commissioners Vicki Thomas and Paul Bahnauer both said that the downtown plan had to remain high on the planning commission's priority list. They pushed for the January date to again review the changes and prepare a recommendation for the City Commission.
Planning Director Price Banks reminded the commission that an amended plan, which would find new downtown redevelopment plans in compliance with federal requirements, be needed for the city to carry out, proposed financing methods.
HARVEY WARNED THE commission that he would not vote for any plan that approved closing Massachusetts condominiums and the amendment would allow closing the street.
Last week the City Commission selected Town Center Venture Corp. to be the new developer for the downtown, Broomfield, Calif., Kenner, La. The move also shifted
The Town Center plan calls for closing the 600 block of Massachusetts and building a shopping mall between it and the alley east of Massachusetts Street.
redevelopment from the 700 and 800 blocks downtown to the 600 block.
When the comprehensive plan was amended to the master plan in December 1981, it was done with the idea that development would be in the 700 and 800 blocks downtown. The City Commission's decision to switch to the 600 block led to the necessary amending of the plan.
Several of the proposed changes that have been made relate directly to the TTP model.
ONE PART OF the amendment changes the recommended development potential in the 600 block, making construction of a "major retail center" a possibility. The original plan said that development potential in the 600 block should be either an office building or a school of schools and benefit from being near the city's "major communication media facilities."
Trial dates are scheduled for students in battery cases
By the Kansan Staff
Trial dates were scheduled yesterday in Douglas County District Court for a KU student charged with sexual battery and for another KU student charged with aggravated battery.
Richard Alan Key, an 18-year Wichita freshman, was arraigned yesterday in Douglas County Discrimination Court for unlawfully battering another KU student.
His hearing for the charge will be at 11:15 a.m. Dec.27.
Key is accused of committing sexual battery on Nov. 2 outside Jayhawker Towers A. He has been arrested Douglas County jail on $2,000 bond.
THE TRIAL OF Billy Hayes Courtney, Kansas City, Kan., senior, who is charged with aggravated homicide in Douglas County District Court
yesterday in Douglas County District Court, Sergio Reyes, Salina senior, testified that at about 1 a.m. Nov. 8, Courtney hit him in the face with a beer mug while he was in a pool room at the Sanctuary, 1401 W. 7th St. Courtney has been released on $10,000 bond.
During a preliminary hearing
Reyes said that he had been standing at the counter of a bar talking to a woman when Courtney walked up and put his arm around her. He pulled away from Courtney and that he told Courtney to leave her alone.
He and Courtney then exchanged words, Reyes said, and then Courtney went to the pool room. Courtney later returned to the bar, Reyes said, and again they exchanged words. Courtney returned to the pool room.
Reyes said that he then went to the room pool to ask someone to calm Courtney. As Reyes was talking to him, he said the hit on the left side of the face
KANU may sue for delay in antenna delivery
By the Kansan Staff
KANU radio is considering taking legal action against RCA Corp. of Camden, N.J., because the company is more than five months late in deliver-
"We have called constantly only to be confronted with a series of excuses about the delivery schedules," said Howard Hill, director of KANU. "As a last resort, I am asking the University General Counsel to review our contract with RCA to see if that agreement has been violated in any way."
using a new broadcast antenna to
address the station director said
sesterday.
He said that he had sent copies of the contract to Vicki Thomas, University of Michigan.
know when she would be able to decide whether the station had suffered enough damages to recover through a legal suit.
"THIS IS a serious step, and not one I take lightly." Hill said. "Even if we were to bring action, it would probably not speed the delivery of a new
He said that on March 11 the station had ordered the antenna, which RCA said it would construct within three hours of the date that KANU placed the order.
However, he said, after several delays RCA officials told KANU in August that the antenna would be shipped in September. But the antenna still has not been delivered, and RCA officials have hedged questions concerning the exact delivery date.
The radio station has been operating on a temporary system since last December when vandals destroyed the telephone tower and antenna on West Campus.
Before the tower and antenna were destroyed, the radio station operated at an effective radiated power of 110,000 watts. However, since the temporary tower and antenna were installed, the station has been operating at only 8,260 watts, said Al Berman, development director.
A new tower, constructed by the Bettlehner Tower Works of Harrison, Ark, has been ready to be shipped to Lawrence since early fall, he said, but the tower cannot be transported until the antenna is ready to be installed.
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